George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
christian atheist europe
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.
country heart people
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.
men action intention
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
slavery aversion kind
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
country views people
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.
abolition-of-slavery soul wish
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
practice government liberty
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
liberty unions virtue
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
religious army men
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.
bible god religious
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...
summer marijuana purpose
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.
peace carpe-diem alliances
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
war government citizens
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
garden careers mind
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.